Lara Rebekah Harvey was born in London and completed her studies at the Royal Northern College of Music where she held the Annie Ridyard Scholarship for Mezzo Sopranos. Lara’s operatic roles include Witch Dido and Aeneas and Cover Alcina La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina (both for Longborough Festival Opera), Madrigalist Manon Lescaut (Opera Holland Park), Olga Eugene Onegin (Opera Loki), Maurya Riders to the Sea (Wexford Festival Opera) and Dritte Dame Die Zauberflöte, Sprite Cendrillon, and Lolo The Merry Widow (all for RNCM Opera). For the last two years, Lara has sung at Glyndebourne Festival Opera where operas performed included Mozart's Don Giovanni, Handel's Semele, Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Lehar's The Merry Widow, Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Bizet's Carmen, and Verdi's La Traviata. Lara has appeared as soloist at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Marines Massed Bands. She was also a finalist in the Emmy Destinn Czech Singing Competition, the Frederic Cox Award, and The Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the Singing of Strauss. Lara recently made her solo debuts at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and the Royal Festival Hall, London.